Re: FLASH: Simple or Impossible?

[william chamberlin]

on 5/16/00 1:12 PM, Jefferis at

Jefferispathway [dot] net

 wrote:



> I am trying to create the effect of a ribbon or a noodle as it might

> squiggle across a page like a snake, or create the effect of a ribbon

> floating down towards you in a waterfall effect so that the front of the

> ribbon gets larger by perspective as it nears you.


> I am wondering if anyone has seen effects like these or knows how one

> might go about creating this illusion without creating a processor drag

> in flash with a million shape tweens.


try to make a ribbon shape mask. (even in perspective) then in-between a

rectangle or whatever will fill the mask, going from one end of the mask to

the other, the illusion might create what you want.

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